Visible Evidence X11

Montreal, Aug. 22-25, 2005

Visible Evidence XII will be held at Concordia University, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, August 22 to 25, 2005.

Visible Evidence is a peripatetic international and interdisciplinary
conference on the role of film, video and other media as witness and voice
of social reality, which encompasses a wide range of cultural, political,
social, historical, ethnographic and pedagogical questions and perspectives
from fields such as film studies, communication studies, anthropology,
architecture, art history, ethnic studies, queer studies, history,
journalism, law, medicine, political science, sociology, urban studies and
women's studies.

First held at Duke University in 1993, subsequent editions
have been held at the University of Southern California, Harvard,
Northwestern, San Francisco State, University of Wales (Cardiff), with most
recent editions taking place in Utrecht (2000), Brisbane (2001), Marseilles
(2002), and Bristol (December 2003). Returning to the Americas in 2005, the
2006 version is planned for Brazil. There is an associated series of books
published by University of Minnesota Press:
Visible Evidence

Visible Evidence, in addition to its interdisciplinarity and intense
collegial ambience among academics, students and practitioners, is notable
for its "manageable" single-stream program, in which all panels are
followed by all conference participants in a cumulative process of
dialogue. For 2005, we are also planning one slot of concurrent workshops.
The keynote speaker has been confirmed as Anand Patwardhan, veteran Indian
documentarist (Mumbai) known for internationally recognized documentary
epics from Waves of Revolution (1974) to Bombay our City (1985) to War and
Peace (2002). An accompanying screening series will be organized by the
local international documentary festival Rencontres internationales du
documentaire de Montréal.

Proposals for individual papers and pre-constituted or open-call panels
and workshops are solicited from faculty, students and documentary
practitioners. Proposals may pertain to any aspect of documentary
aesthetics, history, culture, politics or theory.

i) For an individual paper, please submit a 150-word abstract, a brief
bibliography-filmography, a short biographical statement, and a paper title
by e-mail to waugh@vax2.concordia.ca by January 31 2005.

ii) For an open-call panel or workshop which you would like to organize,
send a 150-word rationale and your call for papers or "interventions" by
email to waugh@vax2.concordia.ca by November 30 2004. The conference
organizers will circulate these on the conference website, indicating that
submissions to open-call panels or workshops are to be sent to the
announced panel or workshop convenor by January 15 2005.

iii) For a pre-constituted panel or workshop, send a 150-word rationale
and the convenor's short biographical statement, along with abstracts for
all participants as per instructions indicated in i) above.

Panels ideally comprise four papers of twenty minutes duration, followed
by comments by a respondent. Workshops ideally comprise up to six
"interventions" of no more than ten minutes each, followed by discussion.

Pour la version française de cet appel, veuillez consulter notre site web, ici.

Visible Evidence XII is hosted by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and
the Department of Communciation Studies of Concordia University

For further information please contact:

Thomas Waugh,

Professor and Graduate Program Head, Film Studies

Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality

Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema

Waugh@vax2.concordia.ca

Or

Martin Allor

Professor

Department of Communication Studies

Allor@vax2.concordia.ca

Organizing Committee/comité organisateur:

Thomas Waugh, Concordia University

Martin Allor, Concordia University

Liz Miller, Concordia University

Daniel Cross, Concordia University

Zoe Druick, Simon Fraser University

Christine Ramsay, University of Regina

Brenda Longfellow, York University

Janine Marchessault, York University

Pierre Véronneau, Cinémathèque québécoise

Catherine Saouter, Université du Québec à Montréal

Noreen Golfman, Memorial University of Newfoundland